I recently had the pleasure of spending 12 days aboard the Mari liveaboard in Raja Ampat, and it was an unforgettable experience. From the moment I stepped on board, I was impressed by the exceptional ...

Descriptions such as breathtaking, picture-postcard, earthly paradise and awe-inspiring are so overused in travel writing, they are almost meaningless. In truth, they should be saved for places like ...

RAJA AMPAT — We left Singapore at about six in the evening and flew to Jakarta, where we began the first part of our airport junk-food odyssey, with mee soto and doughnuts. A few hours later, we ...

Sudden movements, we are warned, will scare away the mantas. It will also interrupt their necessary hygiene ritual, thereby increasing the environmental pressure on this beautiful species. We are four ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. From a distance, Equator Island is a chunk of shark-grey limestone with a stubble of rainforest, ringed by water as blue as a bottle of ...

Having dived in South East Asia and enjoyed amazing dive sites in North Sulawesi and Komodo, I planned a Liveaboard Safari in Raja Ampat to complete my dive experience in Indonesia. Over the last ten ...

Outside and Travel and Leisure highlight Indonesia, specifically Raja Ampat Islands, among the world’s best places to scuba dive. Read on to learn more and find out other spots worth exploring.

Raja Ampat, the archipelago of more than 1,500 jungle-covered islands located in Indonesia’s West Papua province, is bound to figure on any diver’s wish list. The waters around them teem with marine ...

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